About 50 cars collided on the M-11 highway in the Novgorod region, and some were killed. this in his Telegram channel The head of the region, Andrei Nikitin, announced . “Now the regional services are providing all possible assistance. A heating point will be deployed in this area of ​​the accident,” he wrote. The accident occurred at 14:45 Moscow time at the 526th kilometer in the Novgorod region.

The investigator does not allow the wife of mathematician Azat Miftakhov, Elena Gorban, to meet with him in the Kirov pre-trial detention center. about this She spoke in her Telegram channel. According to Gorban, the reason for the ban on visits was a letter she wrote to prisoner Evgeniy Trushkov. "Housewarming. I really hope that you, too, were put in a cell here with rats and cockroaches?,” says the letter she sent.

The lead singer of the group “Puppies” Maxim Tesli took to the stage of a club in St. Petersburg wearing one sock over his penis. A video of his speech was published on the VPSh telegram channel. The head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina , and State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov, drew attention to this . The Baza Telegram channel reports that the “Puppies” concert took place at the MOD nightclub on Arsenalnaya Embankment.

In the Klimovsk microdistrict of the Podolsk urban district, heating has been restored in half of the houses that lost heat due to an accident on the heating main. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the press service of the Moscow region headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. They clarified that heat had returned to 81 of the 174 apartment buildings that had previously been left without heating.

The independent environmental publication Kedr (Kedr.Media) has ceased operations since the beginning of 2024. about this , citing Ivan Zhilin, editor-in-chief of Kedr. writes Mediazona “Kedr has been closed since the beginning of the year due to the fact that people who gave us comments began receiving threats from foreign agencies, including from the well-known Anna Korobkova. We cannot substitute speakers,” he said.

On the morning of January 8, Russian troops launched a new massive missile attack on Ukraine. An air raid alert was declared throughout the country. According to the command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian military used cruise missiles and hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. Explosions were reported in Krivoy Rog, Zaporozhye, Dnieper, Khmelnitsky and in the Kharkov region. Thus, at least four strikes were carried out on Kharkov.

Serbian sniper Dejan Beric spoke about the abuse of Serbian volunteers in the 119th Parachute Regiment. He posted an 11-minute video on his VKontakte page. “I expect that after this I will be imprisoned for discrediting the army,” says Beric, but at the same time asks Putin to look into what is happening. He recorded the video while wearing a T-shirt with the words “Team Putin” written on it. In December 2023, Beric became his confidant in the upcoming presidential elections.

The owner of the Mutabor club, Mikhail Danilov, donated fragments of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker to the Church of the Sign of the Icon of the Mother of God at Sheremetyevo Yard. The video of the donation was published by the Mash telegram channel, with the caption that the relics were brought from the Vatican in November 2023. However, experts doubt this. “We are against obscurantism, diabolism and support the church in every possible way.

He bore Putin, received a new arrest and allegedly declared his readiness to go to war with Ukraine A participant in the “naked” party of Nastya Ivleeva 25-year-old rapper Vacio (Nikolai Vasiliev) was handed the subpoena to the military enlistment office before arresting him under an article on petty hooliganism. The rapper repented of his behavior and said in his defense that he wanted to attract attention in the style, as Sergei Shnurov did, and find a girl.

Three officers of the “M” department of the FSB, responsible, in particular, for the fight against corruption in law enforcement agencies, were arrested in the case of accepting a bribe in the amount of five billion rubles. this TASS reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. They clarified that charges of bribery were brought against Alexei Tsarev, Sergei Manyshkin and Alexander Ushakov.

The film Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, received Golden Globe awards in five categories. In particular, the film won in the categories “Best Dramatic Film” and “Best Director”. And the actors who played in it, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., received prizes in the categories “Best Actor in a Drama Film” and “Best Supporting Role”, respectively.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged missile strikes on New Year's Eve As stated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles on New Year’s Eve. A record 90 Shahed kamikaze drones took part in the attack. Ukrainian air defense forces reportedly managed to shoot down 87 of them. Nevertheless, as a result of the attack in Lviv, the museum of the Ukrainian general Roman Shukhevych was completely destroyed.

The Russian economy fell into a new trap. Will the authorities get out of it without loss? The Russian authorities drive the economy into military captivity: the increase in government spending, which was formed due to the war, the failure of import substitution and administrative barriers disperse the inflation so that even the head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullin cannot cope with it.

The European Commission called on Google and Meta to promote Russian and Belarusian independent media higher in news aggregators than the publications of pro-government publications. This initiative was made by Deputy President of the European Commission Vera Jourova, reports The Financial Times. According to the publication, journalists who left Belarus made a corresponding request to the European Commission.